EXPERRIMENT IN TERROR
Mar 10, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS BY ELENA LAZIC
ILLUSTRATION BY ALICE CARNEGIE
TYPE BY SIMON HAYES
“Avile bag of garbage”. This is the way Roger Ebert infamously described Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave in the very first line of his 1980 review. The famous American critic goes on to describe the more enthusiastic viewers at the screening he attended as “vicarious sex criminals,” and the whole experience as “one of the most depressing of [his] life.”
Though richer in declarative statements than in actual analysis, Ebert’s review does a rather good job of explaining the film’s simple plot. Jennifer (Camille Keaton, related to Buster), an aspiring novelist from the city, goes on holiday to an
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